Intelligent prefetching at a proxy server

Intelligent prefetching helps to reduce the perceived delay for document downloading at the user´s end. A monitor agent predicts possible future requests that are then prefetched to a proxy server “near” the user. An independent cache is provided for all users at the proxy server side. The documents are prefetched in the user´s cache at the proxy server. A separate cache for each user helps prevent a small number of users from exploiting network resources. Intelligent prefetching reduces document retrieval latency at the expense of minimal increase in network traffic